A hospital as a health care organization has been defined in varied terms as an institution involved in preventive, curative/ameliorative, palliative or rehabilitative services. However, the definition given by WHO is quite exhaustive and exclusive, in which it is defined as, ‘an integral part of the medical and social organization which is to provide for the population complete health care, both curative and preventive; and whose out patient services reach out into the family in its home environment. The hospital is also a centre for the training of health workers and for bio-social research’.

Hospitals, these days, also provide bio-social research; teaching and training faciliyies for all members of the hospital, and a health team which includes not only doctors and nurses, but also para-professionals, paramedicals, pharmacists, etc. operationally, a hospital could be viewed as consisting of service facilities for out-patient, in-patient, general wards, emergency, special wards, Intensive Care Units, operation theatre, delivery suite; and support services, such as, pharmacy, radiology and imaging, CSSD, blood bank, laboratory, etc.

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